We’ve all marveled at wedding blogs long enough to crave that 100% personalized look that some brides pull off at their weddings. You know the type: she’s a genius at translating her individual personality into material things, like pocketfold invites or table signs. You want to be that bride! So, let’s say all that browsing’s place you in a detail frame of mind. You’ve got perfectly fine wedding favor boxes for those Amorini hearts, but they just look a teensy bit blah. Of course, adding ribbon and maybe a personalized tag or mark would add pizazz, but maybe you want your own twist on it. Well, read on for thoughts! Close Up-Ready Favor Box Designs 1) Ribbon à Deux. A well loved high-end look for favor boxes involves two ribbons: a thicker one on the bottom, and a thinner contrasting ribbon on top. Here, you don’t need to stick to solids: try knocking together two subtle patterns, or choose one ribbon with another fascinating detail, like saddle stitched edges. Experiment with sheers versus solids. Upgrade: thread a small rhinestone buckle over your ribbons so it graces the front or top of your box. 2) Never Too Thin … Typical favor box ribbon is about half-inch thick, or small less. But a wonderfully upscale alternative is super-thin ribbon (a.k.a. “dainty” double-faced satin ribbon). Wrap this twice around your box, like a Christmas present, and tie off in a bow. Très elegant! Again, work with more than one color to maximize visual interest. You can even layer two separate colors back to back, one color showing on each side, so that the bow displays them both. 3) Stamp it Out. Stamps are a fantastic, super-quick way of personalizing ho-hum boxes. Stamping works best if the card stock for your boxes is smooth, but not too glossy. Pick a motif that’s meaningful for your wedding and a custom color. 4) Strike up the Bands. Paper wrap bands are exciting, and under-used. They’re best for tuck-top or sliding boxes. All you need is some lovely paper: try wrapping paper, scrapbook paper, a design you downloaded off a stock image site, or something you even made yourself (do you paint? Make a design and scan it in!). Use a paper cutter to slice your paper into bands as thick as your box or a bit thinner, wrap it around and secure with a glue stick. So custom! A square personalized mark looks stunning on top of a paper band. 5) Make it Martha. Martha taught us how to wrap favor boxes in semi-translucent colored tissue. Tie at the top with ribbon, and add a custom monogram sticker to the ribbon. You can also wrap your boxes with tulle or organza. A favor box wrapped in shimmery stuff automatically looks twice as bridal. 6) Raise Eyebrows (and Monograms). Custom-embossed favor boxes are incredibly chic, yet rarely seen. All you need is an embosser and a personalized disc with your monogram or personalized design. Use flat-packed boxes, and run the tops or the box fronts through before they’re folded. Voila, an incredibly upscale favor! Sure, the embosser involves an up-front cost, but you can literally use it for life: customize your stationery, your envelope flaps, your thank-you cards … you name it. Hint: be sure to buy an embosser that’s strong enough for card stock. 7) That’s a Wrap! You can even wrap favor boxes in glossy wrapping paper, just like a gift. It’s painstaking to do, but the final result’s sure to excite your guests. Embellish the Tale. Embellishments can turn a Yugo-style favor into a Maserati in seconds! Take your ribbon-wrapped favor box, and add a gorgeous mulberry-paper flower: you’ll find daisies, sunflowers and roses, all pre-wired for bridal bliss (try eBay). Or for a more romantic or formal feel, add a pewter charm in the shape of e-rings, champagne flutes or hearts. You can find these at favor sites or scrapbooking stores. 9) Send the Message. A final thought that’s subtle but surprising: line the inside lid of a two-piece favor with a special message to your guests. (Print these out on mark paper, cut and stick.) These are just a few thoughts to get your personal favor box juices flowing. When you figure out your own perfect twist on your favors, be sure to snap a pic and share it somewhere special (at FavorIdeas, or flickr, or both!) so the next bride can admire – and learn from – your inspiration.
Wedding favor boxes — the place where a “thank you” to guests gets personal — get sweeter and more customized every day. See Favor Thoughts at www.favorideas.com for friendly help with plotting, unique wedding favors and a wondrous variety of wedding favor boxes to help jump-start your design process.

Scrap-booking is a well loved leisure activity among women, teens and girls these days.  Sometimes, even boys and men also like to get involved in simple scrapbook styles or collections of photo albums.  There are some fantastic places to find fantastic scrap-booking supplies including online and at many discount or craft stores.  For some girls, their favorite theme is Disney Princesses.  There are even some women who are utterly obsessed with Disneyland and it’s princess contemporaries and want to make scrapbooks of their Disneyland escapades and Disney vacations. The first place to start with your Disney princess scrapbook is the book itself.  Question yourself, do you want a 3 ring binder with archival page protectors in it or do you want a special vintage or new archival album.  Archival means that it is acid free and that the paper or plastic will not eat through your paper or document.  You will want to make sure that you have acid free glue, tape, stickers and any other items you use in your Disney album should be archival or acid free. Now, what should you place in your album?  Disneyland photos with your favorite princess and dressed as she is, tickets, pins, souvenirs, and photos with princesses would be perfect for your album or binder.  You can make each souvenir be part of the design to make it extra special.  Sometimes even napkins, menus, autograph items and other things are fun additions for your Disney princess scrapbook pages.  Many people like to type up memories Next organize your princess items into groups.  One group for each page.  For example, if you want photos, pins and a placard on one page, place that in a group with your matching scrapbooking papers and other embellishments like stamps, stencils, markers and other items.  Page protectors help you keep your pages organized and clean and ready for you to complete your princess pages in your own time. You can also make an extra copy and file it away with other heirlooms. Fantastic ways to show your new Disney princess scrapbook are to place it in a visible location.  Scrapbooks make fantastic coffee table books and discussion pieces, especially if it is in a perfectly decorated notebook or binder.  Scrapbooks can be a excellent conversation starter as lots of people like to get thoughts and find excellent places to go.  Most everyone likes Disneyland and your scrapbook can help tell the tale of your vacation or other event in your life.  It is also fun to do scrapbooks of your kids lives, births, blessings, christenings, school years, and other themed books.  Whether it is princesses or pirates, your kids and you will delight in looking at your scrapbook for years to come.  They may even be passed from generation to generation some day!
Shelby Strong is an at home mom of 3 kids. She enjoys running an online store called My Cute Dressups where she sells Cinderella Dresses, and other princess costumes like Sleeping Beauty dresses, Snow White costumes, princess accessories, boy costumes and more.

Learning to make a scrapbook is certainly one of the most enjoyable, rewarding and relaxing activities a person can get into. Aside from bringing out the creativity and resourcefulness in every person, it also helps people to organize memories and keepsakes in one place. Through the years, most people collect photos and mementos from their friends, family members, and loved ones. In order to organize these, more and more people are getting into scrapbooking.The Fun With Album Scrapbooking One of the most common themes used in scrapbooking is album scrapbooking. This kind of theme usually involves the use of photos just like in several photo albums. In making album scrapbooks, the first consideration should be the album itself. In the market today, there are two standard sizes of albums – the 8.5”x11” and 12”x12”. If you are plotting to make a family scrapbook, most scrappers will suggest that you use a 12”x12” album because you will need larger space to accommodate all the photos and captions of your family members. Other specifications of scrapbook albums include the post-bound albums that come with black or white cardstock pages and are covered by sheet protectors. The pages of which are bound into the album using three posts that enables it to be easily taken out so you can add or remove pages. This kind of album makes it simple for the scrapper to go pages around by pulling the cardstock out of the sheet protector or by sliding in a page where patterned papers are used. Strap-hinge albums, on the other hand, are those albums that have flexible plastic straps in the cover that run through wire loops embedded in each page and expandable while the 3-ring binders or D-ring binders are those albums that are bound using rings that allow you to add or switch around pages quickly and easily. Aside from the album itself, other major considerations in album scrapbooking is the space or room and the supplies you’ll be needing such as: – stickers that come in various themes, designs, colors, and sizes which are fantastic but inexpensive and very fun and simple to use – tags that can be used as major decorations – cut-outs and punch-outs which are usually tags, alphabet letters, and laser lace borders that are used to decorate the page – paper embellishments which are usually perforated so you can use them anywhere in the scrapbook, – punches which are tools used to punch shapes out of paper that come in shapes of all sizes – embellishments such as buttons, fibers or fancy yarns and threads, metal accents, beads, craft wire and fabric ribbon roses that are safely be used on any scrapbook page – chalk or decorative chalks that come in a set with various colors and applicators perfect for shading and highlighting an album page – eyelets which are fantastic for attaching vellum to paper, for decorating a photo mat or for making a border and which also come in different sizes, colors and shapes – rubber stamps that are very versatile and can be used for different purposes such as in card making – die-cuts which are paper shapes made from that come in all sorts of colors and themes; embossed paper charms and – templates which are ideal for unique embellishments that will make your album scrapbook fantastic. Learning to make a scrapbook using these materials is just a start of your fun and enjoyable journey in the world of scrapbooking!
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Like any home business, starting to work at home is not too simple either. To make this as a business option one would need precise devotion and interest in the area. It is never a quick money scheme, if you are plotting for one. If you get into the scrapbooking business with an intention of making money, the business may not run as expected.
On the converse, this business is not very hard either. You need to manage your skills right so that you can make the home business a successful one.
There are quite many advantages of starting this business at home than in a conventional manner. You would not just have your space, but also a vast audience to market your skill.
You need to know how the scrapbooking business would run at home. The following would help you in the same.
You need to check if you are really enjoying your current full time job. If you reckon, you are not pleased with your job, and then you can plot to consider this option as it may just be right for you. Getting handsome money every other month doing something you just like to; is exactly what people these days are looking for.
Another excellent thing about the scrapbooking business at home is that you could still earn the income you are used to earning. Furthermore, you would have the benefits of spending more time with your friends and family simply by engaging in a job you want to do.
Scrapbooking has emerged quicker in places of Canada and the United States according to the statistics of previous year. In the United States alone, this business has annual revenue of 2.55 billion dollars.
Room for creativity
Again, if you are looking for some challenging occupation along with room for creativity, you can choose scrapbooking as an option to work from home. You would not just reawake excellent ancient memories but at the same time also make excellent bucks at the comfort of your time and home.
Not simply selling
Always keep in mind that work-at-home scrapbooking business does not mean merely selling products and limiting you to that. This industry would provide you with the chance to do creative things demanded in the area of scrapbooking. You could share information and knowledge about related products along with the artistic talents you have got. What is more? You would also get paid for pursuing your leisure activity when this is a home based business.
Additional source of income
If one is looking out for some additional source of pay, scrapbooking could be done at leisure. Earning more is never sarcasm. With taxes in the corner to pay, people look for the extra money along with the regular income. Making the scrapbooking business as a secondary option would not just provide you with the extra income, but also an equal amount of entertainment.
It could also be said that one can earn money using all creativity and the same time having loads of fun and entertainment.
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Scrapbooking is a very well loved leisure activity. There is an entire industry dedicated to supplies and tools just for scrapbooking. The possibilities are seemingly without end. Scrapbooking is a fantastic way to creatively show and preserve your photos and memorabilia. I like to share my scrapbooks with friends and family. Many comment that they want to make scrapbooks to show off their photos, but they don’t know how to start. They are too worried about having to be the creative type. Let me share with you the 7 simple steps that I use in making my scrapbook page layouts. These simple steps are simple to learn and can be adapted to suit your own style of scrapbooking. Choose your Photos – Choose which photos you want to use on that page. As a general rule three to five photos will usually work on a 12 X 12 scrapbook page layout. If you are using a smaller album you will need to adjust this. You may also choose to only include one or two photos if they are larger, you don’t want to crop at all, or you want lots of space around them. Choose on page layout – Plot where to place photos, journaling and page title. The page should feel balanced and pleasing to the eye. If you want some help deciding how to lay out the elements of the page, consider using scrapbook page sketches. These are fantastic blueprints to base your pages on. Choose coordinating papers and embellishments – A fantastic tip for choosing your papers and embellishments is to pull some colors from the photos. Also consider the the subject of the photos. Choose colors that match the feel or mood of the photos. Cool blues might compliment photos of winter better than a sunny yellow. Theme papers are available for many events and holidays. Make sure you use acid free products. Crop and mat photos – Choose which if any photos you want to crop. Remember that sometimes less is more when it comes to cropping. Crop out distractions, but keep some historical and place references. Adhere Photos – Double check your layout, and adhere your photos to the page. Make sure you use acid free adhesives. Add page title and journaling – Choose on a page title (every page doesn’t absolutely need a title). The page title lets us know what the page is about. If you have a hard time thinking of a title, don’t worry. There are many resources for finding a title. Write a draft of your journaling on a piece of scrap paper first. When you are pleased with it, transfer it to your page or journaling box. Add Embellishments – Embellishments should compliment the page not overpower the pictures. For this reason I add them last. That being said, they can really add some spice and visual appeal to your scrapbook page layout.   Remember you can adapt these steps to fit your style and the type of scrapbook album you are making. Scrapbooking is a very individual leisure activity. Use these steps as a guide and have fun!
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